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The Leningrad blockade, 1941-1944
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ISBN: 1280770422 9786613681195 0300183305 9780300183306 9780300110296 0300110294 9781280770425 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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Based largely on formerly top-secret Soviet archival documents (including 66 reproduced documents and 70 illustrations), this book portrays the inner workings of the communist party and secret police during Germany's horrific 1941-44 siege of Leningrad, during which close to one million citizens perished. It shows how the city's inhabitants responded to the extraordinary demands placed upon them, encompassing both the activities of the political, security, and military elite as well as the actions and attitudes of ordinary Leningraders.

Into the arms of Pushkin
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ISBN: 9781612480312 1612480314 9781931112703 1931112703 9781931112710 1931112711 Year: 2007 Publisher: Kirksville, Mo.

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Fascination with the homeland of her Jewish grandparents drew Carol V. Davis to St. Petersburg in the mid 1990s. Over the next decade, she divided her time between the U.S. and Russia, where, as an American-born Jew, she was an outsider in Russian society.


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Sankt-Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad: enciklopedičeskij spravočnik
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ISBN: 5852700371 Year: 1992 Publisher: Place of publication unknown Bol'šaja rossijsakja enciklopedija

Foreign churches in St. Petersburg and their archives, 1703-1917
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ISBN: 1282397702 9786612397707 9047422406 9789047422402 9789004162600 9004162607 Year: 2007 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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Walking the first mile of the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, the visitor is struck by the sight of the Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, German, Armenian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. These buildings reflect the religious, cultural, and social diversity that has been characteristic of the city since Tsar Peter the Great invited thousands of foreigners from all over Western Europe to build this settlement at the estuary of the Neva River. On the occasion of the third centenary of St. Petersburg (2003), historians and archivists from Russia as well as other European countries convened to study the history of the city’s foreign churches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The resulting studies, published here, offer fascinating insights into the almost forgotten history of those churches and show how substantially they contributed to the religious, cultural, social, and economic history of St. Petersburg. Contributors include: Archpriest V. Fedorov, M. Fundaminski, P.N. Holtrop, B. Jangfeldt, E.E. Knyazeva, N.S. Krylov, T. Mägi, A. Must, E. Norberg, P.M. Peucker, K. Rundell, V.M. Shishkin, C.H. Slechte, A.R. Sokolov, Th.J.S. van Staalduine, T.I. Tatsenko, J.W. Veluwenkamp, and M.V. Shkarovskii.

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